November 15

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on November 15. From 1900 until now. November 15 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Jenifer (singer) (1982), Shailene Woodley (1991) and Laura Smet (1983). Several movies were released around November 15 over the years, such as Toy Story in 1995 directed by John Lasseter and Brief Encounter in 1945 directed by David Lean.
But much more happened on November 15 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Austria - Saint Leopold's day -- no school in Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria
USA - America Recycles Day
Norway - The official skolebr�d-day on Sunnland skole
Roman festivals - Festival in honor of Feronia (others say 13 November)
Brazil - Republic Proclamation Day (1889)
R.C. Saints - Albert the Great
Palestine - Independence Day (declared 1988)
Eastern Orthodoxy - Feast of Saint Philip the Apostle and the beginning of Winter Lent; also see November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Events

2018 Kivu conflict: The United Nations announce that seven MONUSCO peacekeepers were killed in clashes with militia yesterday in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
2017 Works by Leonardo da Vinci: Salvator Mundi, a painting generally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, is sold at auction Christie's in New York City for US$450.3 million; setting a new record for the sale of an original work of art. (The Guardian)
2016 Syrian Civil War: Between four and 20 people are reported killed by government and Russian airstrikes that hit rebel held areas, five hospitals, and a mobile clinic in Aleppo, says U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau. Syria and Russia deny targeting Aleppo. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters) (CBS News)
2015 One of the Paris attackers is identified as Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old who was born and raised in the Paris suburbs. (Fox News) (BBC)
2014 A chemical leak at a DuPont plant in LaPorte, Texas leaves four workers dead. (NBC News)
2013 Syrian civil war:: North Korea denies giving military aid to Syria. (Al Jazeera)Hezbollah vows to keep fighters in Syria. (News.com)Albania says it will not allow the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons on its soil after days of protests. (BBC)
2012 At least 95 people are killed across Syria according to the Local Coordination Committees, including 46 in Damascus and its suburbs. (CNN)
2011 A suspected drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan province kills six militants. (BBC)
2010 The US Mint releases the 2010 Mount Hood National Forest quarter dollar to circulation.
2009 The Metro Gold Line extension opens in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights after decades of planning. (''Los Angeles Times'')
2008 In Washington, D.C., leaders of the "G20" nations, representing 90 percent of global GDP, meet for an economic summit, for the first time ever.
2007 Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
2006 In the Kuril Islands, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs. A tsunami with a recorded wave height of 176 cm damages a dock at Crescent City, California.
2005 Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2004 China and the United Nations: The President of the Republic of China Chen Shui-bian declares he will push to get the ROC included in the United Nations under the name Taiwan. The People's Republic of China condemns the move as a political trick to create an independent Taiwan. (Yahoo) (ABC US) (Reuters)
2003 The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2002 The Communist Party of China names former Secretary of the Secretariat Hu Jintao as its General Secretary, replacing Jiang Zemin. Jiang will remain President until spring 2003.
2001 Microsoft launches the Xbox video game system in North America. Price is US$299. The system features four controller ports, one controller, 8 GB hard drive, 733 MHz Intel main processor, 250 MHz NVidia XGP graphics processor, 64 MB RAM, 3D audio support, Ethernet port, broadband Internet connection. Games come on dual-layer DVD-ROM discs that can store 9 GB of data. The system can also play DVD movies. 500,000 units are sold in the first seven days; 1.5 million in the first month.
2000 A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
1999 Neopets, the virtual pet website, is launched.
1997 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1996 Into the Whirlwind opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 performances
1995 Master Class opens at Golden Theater NYC for 601 performances
1994 Glass Menagerie opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
1990 US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1989 Batman is released on video tape
1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1986 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
1985 In separate events, mail bombs kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1984 Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at California medical center.
1983 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1981 Camelot opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 48 performances
1980 Pope John Paul II begins five-day visit to West Germany.
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage situation.
1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
1977 US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran.
1976 Syrian army conquerors Beirut
1975 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 Ringo releases Goodnight Vienna andOnly You in the UK
1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war
1972 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway, New York City
1971 Intel advertises 4004-processor
1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary Ball Four
1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1966 Gemini XII (Lovell / Aldrin) returns to Earth
1965 At the Cherry Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney, Roy Disney, and Florida Governor Hayden Burns make the first public announcement of plans to build a new Disney theme park near Orlando.
1964 Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
1962 Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
1961 Comet C / 1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1960 USS G Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1959 Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith were ultimately caught and convicted of the murders.
1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and US$3,000 fine.
1956 Middle East Technical University is founded in Ankara, Turkey.
1955 Poland andYugoslavia sign trade agreement
1953 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 1st Negro player in organized hockey-Arthur Dorrington signed
1949 KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada.
1947 Bradman scores his 100th 100,172 vs. Indians at the SCG
1946 Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1943 Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put ''on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps''. (see Porajmos)
1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls
1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1937 First congressional session in air-conditioned chambers.
1936 Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1935 Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated.
1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
1922 British Conservative wins election / Labour 2nd party
1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection.
1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins
1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1901 James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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